A slushy, sentimental, and silly love story.
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05/24/03
The Electric Horseman (1979)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:10
Rotten:7
Average Rating:5.6/10
Synopsis: Sydney Pollack directs this wonderful star-driven romp. Robert Redford plays Norman "Sonny" Steele, a former rodeo star who winds up working in a demeaning job in Las Vegas for a massive... [More]
Starring: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine, Willie Nelson
Director: Sydney Pollack
Reviews for The Electric Horseman
1 - 17 (sorted by source; Australian critics are listed first)
The Electric Horseman is the kind of movie they used to make.
10/23/04
Top CriticNo review available.
09/17/04
No review available.
07/15/05
The middle is heavy on romance between the two stars -- both megawatt powers in 1979 -- but the central plot, about a stolen horse for God's sake! -- doesn't carry the weight director Sydney Pollack might like us to believe.
04/18/04
No review available.
01/29/04
No review available.
11/04/05
No review available.
08/22/03
No review available.
11/12/04
At this point, I think it's reasonably safe to say that The Electric Horseman is the best American romantic comedy of 1979.
05/09/05
Top CriticLoved Redford's garish cowboy costume!
04/23/04
colourful and engaging
09/30/05
The Electric Horseman succeeds as an ode to individualism with a modern cowboy who makes a stand against a corporation and a New York reporter who loves her career above all else.
05/09/03
Beguilingly sharp at first, but the later stages, with Fonda's toughie reporter tagging along for a story but going all mushy inside, wallow in sentimentality about integrity, ecology and all that jazz.
01/26/06
Horseman falls far short of what it might have been, starting out smart but getting sloppier and more sentimental as it goes along.
05/26/08
A moderately entertaining film, but no screen magic from Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. The pic is overlong, talky and diffused.
05/26/08
Top CriticNo review available.
04/30/04
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